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Genealogy


The Main Library’s Genealogy Department is now an official Family History Center.

Customers have access to the two million rolls of microfilm owned by the Genealogical Society of Utah.

Films are available for 30 days at a cost of $5.50 per film. Microfilms may not be removed from the library, they may not be ordered from one library and sent to another, and they may not be transferred from one library to another. Customers must have a valid library card.

The catalog is available at FamilySearch.org, a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website which is free and accessible from home.

American Historical Societies

Daughters of the American Revolution
www.dar.org
Florida State Genealogical Society
www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs
Huxford Genealogical Society
www.huxford.com
Jacksonville Genealogical Society
jaxgen.home.comcast.net
Mayflower Society
www.themayflowersociety.com/welcome.htm
New England Historic Genealogical Society
www.newenglandancestors.org
Southern Genealogical Exchange Society
www.sgesjax.com
U.S. State Historical Societies & State Archives Directory
www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/state-archives.html

Beginner’s Tutorials

Ancestors
www.byubroadcasting.org/ancestors
How to Start your Family History
www.familysearch.org/eng/home/welcome/frameset_information.asp
Beginner’s Guide to Family History Research
www.arkansasresearch.com/guideindex.htm
Family Search: Research Guidance
www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/rg/frameset_rg.asp

Charts and Forms

Ancestors - Charts
www.byubroadcasting.org/ancestors/charts
Ancestors.com: Charts and Forms
www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/ancchart.aspx
Family Tree Magazine: Charts & Forms for All Types of Research
www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html
Free Genealogy Charts and Forms
genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts

Ethnic Resources

African-American
Africa GenWeb Project
www.africagenweb.org
Afrigeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy
www.afrigeneas.com
African American Cemeteries Online
www.prairiebluff.com/aacemetery
Africana Heritage Project
www.africanaheritage.com
Florida Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records
www.freedmensbureau.com/florida/florida.htm
Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyage Database
www.slavevoyages.org
Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans fro transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
USF Africana Heritage Project
www.freedmensbureau.com/florida/florida.htm
All-volunteer effort at the University of South Florida to rediscover and share records that document African American genealogy and history.
European
East Europe GenWeb
www.rootsweb.com/~easeurgw
Europe & European Genealogy Resources
society.searchbeat.com/europeroots.htm
European Reading Room at the Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/rr/european
Federation of East European Family History Societies
feefhs.org
German
German Genealogy Home Page
www.daddezio.com/germgen.html
German Roots Database
www.geocities.com/german_genealogy/german.html
Germany GenWeb Project
www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman
Links to German Genealogy on the Internet
home.att.net/~wee-monster/germanlinks.html
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
www.sggee.org
Hispanic
Cuba GenWeb
www.cubagenweb.org/index.htm
Hispanic Genealogy
www.alsgenealogy.com
Italian
Italian Genealogical Group
www.italiangen.org
Italian Genealogy Home Page
www.daddezio.com
Italian Genealogy Online
www.anzwers.org/free/italiangen
Introduction to Italian Genealogy
www.regalis.com/reg/genres.htm
Jewish
Center for Jewish History
www.cjh.org/collections/genealogy/index.php
Jewish Web Index
jewishwebindex.co
JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
www.jewishgen.org
Sephardic Genealogy Sources
www.sephardicgen.com
Yad Vashem: Holocaust Martyrs' & Heroes' Remembrance Authority
www.yadvashem.org
Native American
The Cherokee Nation
www.cherokee.org
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
www.hanksville.org/naresources
National Archives Index (Guion Miller Rolls)
www.archives.gov/research/arc/native-americans-guion-miller.html
National Archives Index (Dawes Rolls)
www.archives.gov/genealogy/tutorial/dawes/index.html
Native American Genealogy
www.accessgenealogy.com/native
Native American Nations
www.nanations.com
Native American Data
userdb.rootsweb.com/nativeamerican
United Kingdom & Ireland
Introductions to Griffith’s Valuation
www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6108/grifintr.htm
Irish Ancestors
scripts.ireland.com
Irish Genealogy
www.irishgenealogy.ie
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
www.proni.gov.uk
United Kingdom & Ireland Genealogy
www.genuki.org.uk
United Kingdom Genealogy Archives
www.uk-genealogy.org.uk
United Kingdom Genealogy Searches & Resources
www.ancestorhunt.com/united_kingdom_genealogy_search.htm

Florida Resources

Florida Genealogy & Family Trees
genealogy.about.com/od/florida
(About.com)
Florida Genealogy Links
www.genealinks.com/states/fl.htm
Florida GenWeb Project
www.flgenweb.net/
(Florida Genealogy Website)
Florida Memory Project
www.floridamemory.com
(Florida State Archives)
Florida Pioneers
www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs/pioneer_program.htm
Jacksonville City Directories
jpl.coj.net/dlc/florida/rbmp/cdindex.html
State GenSites: Florida
www.genealogytoday.com/genealogy/states/florida.html
(Genealogy Today)

Immigration

Castle Garden
www.castlegarden.org
- Immigrant records 1830-1892
Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals
www.ellisisland.org
- Immigrant arrivals
Famine Immigrants
aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=SB301&bc=sb
Firstmom’s Genealogy Resources: Immigrant Ships' Passenger Lists
khuish.tripod.com/ships.htm
Immigrant Ships' Transcribers Guild
www.immigrantships.net
Nanaimo Family History Society
members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs
Canadian Historical Society index of arrivals at Halifax & Quebec.
National Archives Lists of Famine Immigrants
aad.archives.gov/aad...
One Step to Ellis Island, Eastern Ports & More
stevemorse.org
Online German Emigration Lists
home.att.net/~wee-monster/emigration.html
Passenger Manifests for the Port of Boston - Massachusetts Archives
www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcsrch/passengermanifestsearchcontents.html
Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations
www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html

Libraries/Archives

Allen County Public Library, Genealogy Department
www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy
American Memory Project
memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
(Library of Congress)
Florida State Archives
www.floridamemory.com/Collections/
Local History & Genealogy Reading Room
www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy
(Library of Congress)
National Archives Genealogy Page
www.archives.gov/genealogy
P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History
web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html
(University of Florida Library)

Military

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss
Florida Confederate Pension Application Files
www.floridamemory.com/Collections/PensionFiles
Florida WWI Service Cards
www.floridamemory.com/Collections/WWI
Korean War Casualties
www.aiipowmia.com/koreacw/kwkia_menu.html
National Archives Vietnam War Casualties
www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war/casualty-lists
National Archives Vietnam Missing and POWs
aad.archives.gov/aad...
National Archives State Summary of War Casualties for WWII for Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard Personnel
www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/navy-casualties
National Archives WWII Honor List of Dead & Missing Army & Army Air Force Personnel
www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/army-casualties
National Archives WWII POWs
aad.archives.gov/aad/fielded-search.jsp?dt=466&tf=F&cat=all&bc=sl
National Archives WWII Enlistments
aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3360&cat=WR26&bc=,sl

Search Sites

Ancestry Library Edition
www.ancestrylibrary.com
(In Library Use Only)
FamilySearch.org
www.familysearch.org
- Maintained by the Latter Day Saints
Footnote.com
www.footnote.com
Collects original documents related to history and genealogy
Genealogy Databases
www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/res/db/genealogy.html
Obituary Databases
www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/res/db/obits.html
Online Searchable Death Records and Indexes
www.deathindexes.com
Rootsweb.com
www.rootsweb.com
- Oldest free genealogy site on the Web
SearchSystems.net Free Public Records Directory
www.searchsystems.net

Web Directories

Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites
www.CyndisList.com
GenealogyBuff.com
www.genealogybuff.com/
North American Genealogy Resources
www.genhomepage.com/northamerican.html
Regional Genealogy & Local History Research
www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm
USGenWeb: Genealogy in the US
www.usgenweb.com
United States Vital Records Information
vitalrec.com
Where to Write for Vital Records
www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm
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